... word or concept to many different objects. Let us take for example, how can the word chair be used for all the individual objects in the physical world that are chairs? I think Plato answered this question correctly by saying that various things can be called by the same name because they all have something in common. He called this common factor ... the thing's form. So I agree with Plato in that this solves the problem of how objects in the material world are all distinct, that no two chairs are exactly the same, yet they all have `chairness' in common. There are different objects ref...

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